[Spellyans] David Mitchell on Cornish

[Ken MacKinnon]

I realise this is strictly speaking off-topic - but friend might like to see the full trnascript.

- an Len ken

 
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Daniel Prohaska 
  To: 'Standard Cornish discussion list' 
  Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 7:15 PM
  Subject: Re: [Spellyans] eleven & only


  Must have got carried way… <unnik> and <unikter> it is.

  Dan

   

  -----Original Message-----
  From: Michael Everson
  Sent: Saturday, August 22, 2009 5:32 PM



  On 22 Aug 2009, at 15:28, Daniel Prohaska wrote:

   

  > As far as I am aware the word unikter is a neologism.

   

  That may be, though oddly Nance doesn't mark it with an asterisk. He  

  does mark another neologism, *ünygeth, with an asterisk. So there we  

  have UC unyk, unycter, and unygeth. That's two words (even if  

  neologisms) derived from a stem. Wheg, whecter. Unnyk, unycter.  

  Glanyth, glanythter. Pryveth, pryvetter. This is a familiar pattern in  

  Cornish.

   

  > How can that dictate how Revived Cornish is to be spelt? Shouldn’t  

  > the neologism rather follow the traditional spellings and be amended  

  > to *unekter?

   

  Sorry, Dan, but I really don't understand you here. What is it that  

  you are doing? The SWF accepted Ken George's vowels in unstressed  

  syllables, did it not? Why then are you changing KK "unnik" to SWF  

  "unnek", while retaining that vowel in "unikter"? Are you applying  

  your *own* criteria for choosing via orthographic frequency? If so,  

  how does that fit in with the principles of the SWF?

   

   

  Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/

   

   

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